A Fifth Estate investigation traces the long game that put secession on Alberta's ballot: separatist organizers systematically capturing riding associations and levers inside the governing United Conservative Party until the question couldn't be refused.
No tanks, no crisis — just meetings, memberships and motions. The most effective separatist strategy in modern Canada was showing up to boring party business for years.
If it happened in Alberta's big tent, it can happen anywhere partisans sleepwalk. Democracy's guardrails assume participants; entryists count on absentees.
Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.
By systematically taking over party machinery from within, per the investigation.
Boring party internals decide existential questions.